“The Language of Landscape,” Dialogue, Public Radio International, 1999

“We read books to read ourselves and the world around us, to learn the coordinates of our lives by situating them in other lives and in our surroundings. What rewards there are, then, in a book that gives us a new language, the language of landscape, to interpret and understand what nature and human hands have wrought about us. This language allows us a greater expression of E. M. Forester’s timely injunction “only connect,” and it reminds us that we are part of the whole. My guest is Anne Whiston Spirn, author of The Language of Landscape.” – George Seay